The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-15
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| SIX SALOON MEN have applied for licenses al
/ Bushnell H.. where the price for permission tc
! sell liquor has been placed at $4,000 year. Thi
/ is nearly Sic apiece for every man, woman anc
/ child in the town.
| IL the absence OF a stretcher. a coffin wa
| found The most available substitute at the scene
/ of an accident, in a remote section of New Torl
State. last week and in it one of the injured wa!
| laid and carried to the nearest physician fol
| treatment.
! A GIRL, carrying 14-month boy, ran into {
Pittsburg police station the other day The
! child's face was purple, and it was apparently
choking to death. At every expiration of breath
| a sound like that of a distant cornet was emitted
| from his mouth The police sergeant gave the
] youngster two or three sound whacks on tine
sback, and out came toy bugle which had lodged
Fin the infant S throat.
|: A MINNEAPOLIS lady, making her way through
| a crowd on the street the other day, accidental
| ly pushed small bootblack into the gutter
| She instantly stopped and said: MY boy, ex
| cuse me; did not mean TO push you. The
| little fellow stared at her a moment, and then,
turning to his companion, said: Say, Mickey,
| I'd be pushed off n the walk every day TO have
| real lady talk TO me that way.
LAST FALL while Joshua Hodgins, of Mari
nette, Wis, was repairing a pump in the H.
witbeck Company's barn pig fell through the
| floor. and was forgotten when the floor was re-
| laid A few DAYS since some one in the barn
was attracted by grunting, and upon taking up
| the floor the pig was discovered. He had lived
| about eight months, and through the coolest
| winter weather, on what grain had fallen
! through the floor
THE redwood forests of Mendocino and other
parts of the coast of California and Oregon, are
| the largest and most wonderful forests of the
| world Every valley is filed with gigantic red
woods, and although the forests are largely
| owned by corporations, they are TO consider
able extent the heritage of the laboring classes.
! many of whom have titles to from eighty TO 800
| acres. The average yield per acre is 100000
| feet, or 100000 TO the square mile.
Two LADIES and two gentlemen, of Aurora,
Mo- met in a parlor the other evening and
determined out of sport to hold a mock Spirit
ualistic seauce. While they were quietly sitting
around a table telling ghost stories the table
| was seized by some unseen power and carried
| quickly up to the ceiling. from which it was
| hurled to the floor with great violence. In its
| fall the table struck one of the young men on
the head, rendering him unconscious. Physicians
! were called in and the unfortunate man con
| veyed to his home, but he is still unconscious
| and is not expected to recover.
| A RICH and eccentric Frenchman, who was
recently shot and nearly killed by the English
| girl whom be calls his wife, had cannons. re-
| volvers and rifles in his house instead of bells.
| A six-pounder brass cannon fired once sum
moned the butler; fired twice it called the cook;
| three times the coachman. Five discharges of
the revolver in rapid succession brought the
chambernaid seven shots meant that the
chambermaid should appear with hot water No
candles were allowed to be blown out, but were
to be eXtingliShed by pistol shots. All the
servants were provided with revolvers, and from
morning till night there were constant cannon
aiding and revolver shots.
A NEW musical prodigy, the child Hoffman,,
continues, says a Paris cable, to excite the
greatest enthusiasm whenever he appears.
Without considering, him as a modern Mozart
says the correspondent. he has certainly won
derful execution, facility, memory, and a re
markGble talent for improvisation. He listens
attentNely to a melody which ne hears for the
first time and Immediately. without a moment s
hesitation or study, he carries that original
theme through dozen or more variations,
never losing it, and never giving it more en-
Enlistment than its rhythm and musical idea
can support. Hoffman, comes from Vienna,
| and is said to be only years of age.
NEW YORK MAN is having piano made for
him in England. 1t has been designed by Mr.
Alma Tadmen1a, r. A. It's shape is that of an
ordinary grand piano, but the groundwork is
ebony; the legs carved lions and tigers are of
oak; and the decorative details Of cedar, box
wood, and ivory make the instrument very IN
like the usual drawing room piano. It is made
with delicately carved and inlaid borders of
classical scrollwork, and the great beauty of the
LdWny eD0nY IN cOTnDlnaJlOn with req ceuaF and
yellow lockwood is effective. Over the keyboard
is a long, low picture by Mr.. Poynter, R. "A
| classical piece in which wandering MINISTRIES
pipe to madens dancing in garden.
THE editor of a paper at Storm Lake, Ia, is
now hiding in a swamp near that place in con-
| sequence of the way in which he mixed up the
reports Of a cattle show and a concert. His pa
per said: THE concert given last night by six
| teen Of Storm Lakes most beautiful and inter
pStinp ladies' highly
| They were elegantly dressed and sung in a most
charming manner, winning the plaudits of the
| entire audience, who pronounce them the finest
| breed of shorthorns in the country. A few of
them are of a rich brown color, but the majority
| are spotted brown and white. Several of the
| heifers were fine-bodied, tight-limbed animals
| and promise to prove good property"
A LEADvIILE MINER named Roberts. who with
his partner, Daniel Won, was engaged in sinking
a shaft in Sugar-Loaf Mountain, dreamed one
night that the ground caved in and buried Won.
and that he himself had a narrow escape from
| death. He related the dream to his partner
who scoffed at it, On the following night the
dream was repeated with great vividness, the
parents of Roberts coming to his bedside and
imploring him not enter the shaft. Won was
again incredulous when the second dream was
related to him, and went to work as usual but
during the afternoon Roberts came up to him
and persuaded him to leave the shaft A mo-
ment later the ground caved in with a great
crash.
A STORY from Springfield, O., duly avouched
| says that while returning from a party few
| nights ago some Of the young folks were laugh
ing and having a good time, when one of the
company, young lady, laughed so heartily at
some joke that she dislocated her Jaw A Young
man rushed for the nearest doctors office and
took the physician with him to set the Jaw. This
was done in an instant, and the doctor left He
had hardly gotten out of sight when the young
lady commenced to laugh again, and dislocated
the jaw a second time. The young man who
had gone to summon the doctor then essayed to
to set it, and as a result he disocated the other
side. He grew more frightened than ever and
rushed off q second time for the doctor. The
latter came in an hour, and the dislocation was
corrected without further mishap.
BAYLEss w. HANNA is to be handed down To
posterity in a great historical painting A
Louisville Courier-JourWdL writer tells that
shortly after his arrival as Minister to Buenos
Ayres the President was to be installed The
troops were drawn up in long columns and the
distinguished citizens and diplomats were at the
Congress Hall or place TO welcome the incom-
ing chief magistrate. just as the President was
entering the palace TO deliver his inaugural
address an eXofflcer of the army belonging to
an opposing political party, and as the chief of
a conspiracy. rushed upon the unsuspectinr
rulerelect and gave him terrible blow and cut
on the head. Mr. Hanna was one of the first TO
reach the side of the President and rescue him
from further violence and death at the hands of
the desperate assassin. The President was bnthed
and in an hour or two read his address to the
aSSemblage with his head heavily ba cod Tie